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Odds and Ends on anti-gay marriage amendment

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Here’s what’s happening around the state this week:

Rep. Karen Clark says she introduced the bill to repeal the anti-gay marriage amendment because she’s heard from legislators who have had second thoughts about their vote for the amendment last spring. [Politics in Minnesota]

Minnesotans United, the coalition opposing the amendment, has begun work in Asian communities. The group hosted a meeting at Hamline University over the weekend. [MPR]

Lori Sturdevant is predicting a nasty battle over the anti-gay marriage amendment. [Star Tribune]

Marilyn Carson Nelson of the Fortune 500 Carlson Companies argues that Minnesotans should reject the amendment because its bad for business. Nelson says she knows that because inclusivity has been good for her business. [Star Tribune]

Experts weigh in one how Michele Bachmann’s campaign disintegrated in Iowa. [Des Moines Register] Bachmann was the architect of Minnesota’s anti-gay marriage amendment. Will she return to the state to push for it’s passage?

Jennie Zeitler of Royalton wants her community to know that she supports the anti-gay marriage amendment. [Morrison County Record]

St. Paul’s Holy Trinity Church is warning its parishioners about the “militant homosexuals” who want to destroy marriage. Likely the church is engaging in such language with the blessing of Archbishop Nienstedt. [Good As You]

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Andy Birkey has written for a number of Minnesota and national publications. He founded Eleventh Avenue South which ran from 2002-2011, wrote for the Minnesota Independent from 2006-2011, the American Independent from 2010-2013. His writing has appeared in The Advocate, The Star Tribune, The Huffington Post, Salon, Cagle News Service, Twin Cities Daily Planet, TheUptake, Vita.mn and much more. His writing on LGBT issues, the religious right and social justice has won awards including Best Beat Reporting by the Online News Association, Best Series by the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and an honorable mention by the Sex-Positive Journalism awards.